Banzai Unveils Significant Stability and Performance Enhancements for Demio, Boosting User Experience by Up to 20x

New Updates Focus on Streaming Stability, Virtual Backgrounds, and Automated Sessions, Significantly Enhancing User Interface Speed and Responsiveness

SEATTLE, June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNZI) (“Banzai” or the “Company”), a leading marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions, is pleased to announce the release of major stability and performance enhancements to its Demio product.

“These new enhancements will dramatically improve the stability and speed of Demio,” said Melissa Mason, VP of Product Management at Banzai. “We are proud of our industry-leading customer satisfaction, and these updates will build on that success.”

The improvements focus on three key areas: streaming stability, virtual backgrounds, and automated sessions. These enhancements address some of the most critical customer-facing features of Demio, ensuring a more reliable and seamless user experience.

In addition to these stability improvements, Banzai has implemented performance upgrades, including the adoption of the HTTP/2 protocol for key backend services. This upgrade can boost application performance by up to 20 times in certain scenarios, significantly increasing the speed and responsiveness of the user interface for customers.

Banzai is committed to continuing to enhance the Demio platform with additional updates planned for 2024.

About Banzai
Banzai is a marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes. On a mission to help their customers achieve their mission, Banzai enables companies of all sizes to target, engage, and measure both new and existing customers more effectively. Banzai customers include Square, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thinkific, Doodle and ActiveCampaign, among thousands of others. Learn more at www.banzai.io. For investors, please visit https://ir.banzai.io/.  

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Contacts:

Investors
Alvin Yip
Interim CFO, Banzai
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Media
Rachel Meyrowitz
Director, Demand Generation, Banzai
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